Dept. of Transportation should reject $950 million bond and $3.7 billion loan for high speed rail in Florida

Feb. 22, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging the Department of Transportation to stop funding a higher-speed rail project in Florida from Orlando to Miami:

“The Department of Transportation needs to stop throwing good money after bad on the Green New Deal pipe dream of high-speed rail. It didn’t work in California, it didn’t work anywhere else and it won’t work in Florida either.